Old Gibson Advertising Materials

[zipster100]

I saw this posted on another forum and thought it should be here as well. Some old Gibson advertising from 1911 through the 30s. Cool stuff.

 

http://www.fox-guitars.com/Gibson_Publications.html

[EuroAussie]

Cool, running an ad agency that was interewting to see. Actually our head office in NYC about 5 years ago had Gibson as a client. The Executive Creative Director, and a keen guitr player may have been friends or known Henry or someobody high up in the Gibson chain.

[E-minor7]

So very important these things don't go up in smoke -

[Danner]

Great post!

 

Thank you.

[onewilyfool]

So very important these things don't go up in smoke -

I haven't seen anything that stacked in a long time!

[dchristo]

thanks, very cool

[zipster100]

What is funny about this stuff is that I found the original post over at the Martin Forum (UMGF), these days Martin's quarterly magazine is called The Sounding Board, I wonder if anyone at Martin was aware that Gibson used that name back in 1911.

[pfox14]

Glad you like my website. I just posted the cover of Gibson's first magazine called "The Sounding Board" from 1911, as well as another really obscure publication called "The Gibsonite" from 1923 with an article by Lloyd Loar himself. You can also check out the history of Gibson advertising from the very first ad in 1903 through the 1970s:

 

http://www.fox-guitars.com/Gibson_Advertising.html

[zombywoof]

Cool stuff! Love it.

 

I used to snap up any old catalog or sales stuff I ran across. Back before the internet it was about the only way you could find information on something like an old Kay guitar or Alamo amp.

[zombywoof]

Hey Mr. Fool - I think that chimney went up in smoke. If I recall it was taken down.